Mark Sanchez will not return as a Fox Sports analyst, the network told The Athletic on Friday, as the former NFL quarterback faces trial stemming from his alleged attack on a truck driver last month.<\/p>\n
“We can confirm that Mark Sanchez is no longer with the network,” a Fox spokesperson told The Athletic<\/a>. “There will be no further comment at this time.”<\/p>\n Sanchez had been off the air since the Oct. 4 incident at the Westin Hotel in downtown Indianapolis. He was in town for the weekend’s game between the Colts<\/a> and Raiders<\/a> when he confronted the truck driver before allegedly attacking and injuring him.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Sanchez was stabbed in the chest in the incident and spent a week in a hospital. The trucker, who claims self-defense and has not been charged, is suing him and Fox Sports for unspecified damages.<\/p>\n Fox Sports also announced Friday that Super Bowl-winning quarterback Drew Brees was joining the network as a game analyst. He will replace Sanchez on the crew with Adam Amin and Kristina Pink starting in Week 11.<\/p>\n “I appreciate the opportunity FOX has given me in the booth and with their team,” Brees said in a statement. “I hope my passion for this game is reflected in the knowledge and insights I provide to the fans each Sunday.”<\/p>\n Sanchez’s trial is set to begin Dec. 11, though prosecutors expressed doubt following an Oct. 22 hearing that it was a realistic trial date. Prosecutors have charged Sanchez with a felony count of battery involving serious bodily injury, along with three misdemeanor charges, including public intoxication.<\/p>\n Sanchez, who remains free on bond, declined to address the allegations after he booked Oct. 12, saying he was focused on his recovery.<\/p>\n Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Sanchez will not return as a Fox Sports analyst, the network told The Athletic on Friday, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-269261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}